Non-university collaborations

Berlin is one of Europe’s most productive and vibrant centres for literary studies and literature. The Graduate School draws on this diverse landscape by providing its members with access to joint events, external advisory opportunities, and practice-oriented programmes.

• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

• Max Planck Institute for Human Development

• Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB)

• Institute for Advanced Study (WiKo)

• Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)

• The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)

• Deutsches Literatur Archiv Marbach

Intra-university cooperation

The Graduate School cooperates closely with other programmes in the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences at both Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, whose students, doctoral researchers, and postdocs also work on literary studies projects.

• Master’s programme Applied Literary Studies

• PhD-net Das Wissen der Literatur

• Doctoral programme Latin American Studies: Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation

• Doctoral programme MOVES - Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges

• Graduate School of North American Studies

• Graduate School of East Asian Studies

• Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies

• Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

Cooperation with third-party funded projects

• Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net: DramaNet

• Travelling Traditions / EUME: Europa im Nahen Osten / Der Nahe Osten in Europa – Forum Transregionale Studien [German]

• International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures

• Zukunftsphilologie – Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

Former cooperation partners

• TEEME (Teeme: Text and Event in Early Modern Europe; international doctoral programme in early modern studies funded by the European Union)

• North-South Literary and Cultural Interactions [German] (DAAD-geförderter, trinationaler Promotionsstudiengang mit der Kenyatta University (Kenia) und der University of Cape Town (Südafrika))